Meh, that seems a bit confirming your previously stated bias.
I can’t blame anyone for not wanting to play or talk about this particular game, because it wasn’t particularly good. Sure, it had stellar graphical tech, but that can’t help poor level design, poor puzzle design, poor dialogue, poor plot, etc. The final showdown with the chopper was ridiculous, and the cliched bad guy not being dead cliche made me groan.
Sure, we got into this to talk about how the Tomb Raider series has gotten better at gender representation and gender issues in the series, and to the extent that Rise of the Tomb Raider didn’t contain the rapey scene it’s, I guess, less problematic than the 2013 reboot. But, RotTR is less of everything, less fun, less scenic, less original, less memorable.
two stars out of five.
ps - thanks for the free game.
